The Wedding Trip: Day Two!

Day Two: Part One

Husband arrived home from his best manly duties of orchestrating the groom's bachelor party about six in the morning.

He very artfully scooped Vivienne off of his pillow, into the middle of the bed and slipped in for a quick nap.

Little did he know that he would only get about an hour and a half's worth of nap time before we would all be rudely awakened by a loud crash.

The crash came from both boys rolling off of their fold out bed at the same time. Lucky for them, they landed on their feet, just very hard (hard enough to rock the entire travel-trailer!)

That was about it for any attempts at sleep. Husband rolled out of bed and decided that he should go after breakfast for the babies.

He came back about thirty minutes later with bags full of McDonald's food. The babies had never had that sort of breakfast, so getting them to actually eat was extremely challenging.

Vivienne would toss anything that she didn't like onto the floor without any regard as to where it landed.

Kian quickly took to doing the same thing while Kai shoveled as much as he could get into his mouth.

I spent the better part of the morning trying to field flying food and make sure that everything was picked up so that my friend who loaned us his travel-trailer would maybe let us use it again one day!

Husband was soon summoned by the poor groom to head out to the festival site to help finish preparations for the reception and the wedding.

Meanwhile, I decided to keep the kids at the trailer in the air conditioning instead of letting them hang out on the very sunny site where things like poison ivy and fire ants lurked waiting to get them.

I did manage to find a spot inside the trailer where I could get all of two reception bars on my cellphone, so I called my dear friend and arranged a visit for after the wedding.

Next, I called my friend in Dallas to keep me company while the kids watched their movies on the portable DVD player.

While we were talking, I noticed that the bride's father had come outside, and wandered into the thick hedge into the overgrown lot next door, carrying only a wooden cooking spoon.

I couldn't figure out the why, or even the where of this because there really isn't anything in the lot next door except lots of thick bushes and trees.

It seemed every time I looked up, he was wandering across the driveway and into that lot, too.

We never could figure out why, but since I never saw him return to the house, only go out into the lot, we decided something must be amiss!

Husband eventually came back to collect his wedding party clothing, and we loaded the dressed up babies into the car.

We took a slight detour into the gas station around the corner for energy drinks and pizza before I dropped husband and the groom back off at the feast hall to finish getting ready for the wedding.

Before I could make my getaway and head out for baby lunch, it was decided that we needed signage so that folks could actually FIND the wedding.

Most of us had quite forgotten that not everyone is used to the winding maze of roads and paths that lead around the festival site.

And that was taking into account only the roads leading up to the actual site itself.

The wedding was to be at the Odeon stage which isn't labeled during the off season and isn't readily apparent even to your average patron.

So, off to the grocery store I went for poster board, markers and packing tape to make signs so that hopefully folks could find the wedding!

Thankfully, the babies fell asleep while I was getting my orders, and slept until after I was able to get their lunch and return to the site.

Oddly enough, the babies were gracious in accepting cups of chicken strips and french fries and didn't even think it odd that they were eating out of plastic cups in the van while they watched movies.

Finally, the time came when it was about fifteen minutes until the wedding. I unloaded the stroller as guests began to arrive.

It had been literally about three years since I had seen any of my friends from this area, and none of them had ever met my tiny trio before that day!

I did manage to get the babies out of the van and loaded into their stroller before the first of my friends found us.

I got lots of hugs and kisses, but then the attention turned towards my babies.

I know my friend meant well, but she decided that she wanted to get Vivienne out of the stroller and play with her.

Vivienne seemed receptive at first, but then decided at the last minute to lunge towards Bregon instead. Luckily, he was paying attention and caught her!

Next, as I headed across site towards the stage, Kai began to fuss, wanting out of his restraints as well.

The next thing I knew, we had all three of the babies out on their leashes. I had two of them and Bregon had Kai.

Oddly enough, Kai did the best of everyone. I was busy getting inundated with hugs and people which gave the babies enough distraction to be naughty!

Kian seized the moment to run around me, and tangle up a friend that I was trying to talk to in his leash.

Luckily, we are all used to maypole dances, and she just countered by ducking under it!

Faire folk can be crafty as it turns out, when it comes to babies trying to entangle and ensnare the unsuspecting with their leashes!

At one point, Vivienne pulled away from her leash because it was hot, and went exploring. She found another friend and had tried to convince him to help her climb the stairs to the stage so that she could see the wedding much better!

Unfortunately, both she and Kian managed to fall and scrape their knees at virtually the same time.

The howling that ensued meant that I needed to take them back to the air conditioning in the car.

Sadly, I managed to miss the rest of the wedding and the reception. But, then there was that already arranged hot date that I had made earlier with my friend for tea-time!